More Opinion – Page 346
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Take it on the chin
Alsop’s letter only helped to confirm the public’s impression that architects are arrogant egomaniacs.
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A critical debate
Are we losing architecture? Foster, it seems, is suffering from the same affliction as indie rockers and rappers once they become rich and successful.
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Space and time
With acknowledgments to the principles explained in Sir Banister Fletcher’s book, The History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, I suggest architecture of all ages is: space, with a face, for a race, in a place, built with grace. So, see to it you modern version of the great ...
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Which weather?
Bill Gething issues a weather warning (Solutions January 21), exhorting architects to take a lead in response to climate change.
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Hes only just begun
How bitter is Clifford Bannister’s letter (January 7). Adjaye has got a phenomenal amount of good PR and press.
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Modern manners
Wells Coates’s Isokon may deserve a small place in history, but Embassy Court certainly does not (Works January 21) .
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In perspective
I get nervous when “gender equality” is equated with making accommodations for women’s supposed desire for a life/work balance.
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We need women
In response to BD’s “Who’s in our sights” listing (News January 7), Stephen George & Partners would like to employ more female architects, but the 50/50 campaign seems somewhat flawed, simply because only 14.6% of architects are female.
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We can all benefit
A feminist campaign to promote the interests of women? There is nothing in the 50/50 Charter that would not benefit men as well as women.
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Flash alternative
Has it not occurred to have-it-all architect fathers who love long hours that it’s perfectly possible to have a “blinding flash of inspiration” on the bus to the nursery?Catherine Brownell, London
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Is high-rise really such a tall order?
At the Sustainable Communities Summit next week, John Prescott will push his vision for high-density, low-rise solutions to the housing crisis. But this single-minded, traditional approach has limitations.
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OpinionConcrete Boots
Cabe to the rescueCabe left no stone unturned when writing its report on design codes. The commission held a series of “code-busting workshops” with planning officers, designers and developers to put its findings to the test. All together now — who you gonna call? Code-busters.Risky jumpersThere may be many strange ...
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Ian Martin
This year all the big clients are more interested in getting into the Guinness Book of Records than winning the Stirling
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Succumbing to the hard sell
We have finally succumbed to the death of any sort of utopian goals in architecture by simply allowing products to be presented as cultural icons without attempting to attach a level of critical reflection.
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With regret
I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to the Architecture Foundation on the result of its competition.Sam Jacob, London
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All that glitters
Does it come as a surprise to anybody, apart from a gullible jury, that Alsop’s surrealistic, flashy and seductive collages that made up his competition entry for Goldsmiths College are manifested as a dull box with a bow… a box with decoration signifying nothing. A lesson, hopefully, to ...
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Wasted chances
How extremely refreshing to read Robert Booth’s editorial (January 14) — a rare critical initiative challenging some of our big names.
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Putting the boot in
To suggest buildings by Foster’s office at Gateshead and Alsop’s at Goldsmiths are “not architecture” simply because one BD critic has, as you put it, “stuck the boot in” is patently absurd. To leap from criticism to dismissal seems aggressively extreme.